{"nrhp_refnum":"06000645","name":"LeFevre, Abraham and Maria, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"56 Forest Glen Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gardiner","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.69888693000007,"lon":-74.12964215199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","European","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story Dutch Colonial stone farmhouse at 56 Forest Glen Road in Gardiner, Ulster County, New York, built in three stages between about 1740 and 1798 by the LeFevre family.","why_significant":"The house is one of the oldest documented stone dwellings surviving outside the village of New Paltz and is associated with the third generation of the Huguenot patentee families. Its three-part construction, rare mix of jambless and jambed fireplaces, and east-end doorway preserve Dutch building customs. Tree-ring dating of its beams confirms the construction sequence.","narrative":"Set in a hollow at the end of a long lane off Forest Glen Road in Gardiner, this long, low stone farmhouse was built in three stages. Abraham LeFevre and Maria Bevier established their homestead in 1742, and tree-ring dating of oak beams places the central room at 1740-1742, an eastern addition around 1758, and a western kitchen wing between 1794 and 1798. Its random-coursed, rough-faced stone walls and steep gable roof follow the stone-house tradition of Ulster County's Huguenot families. Unusual features include a jambless and a jambed fireplace in the same Dutch house and a doorway in the east gable end, a persistent Dutch custom. Interiors were altered in the 1820s, when ceilings were plastered and attic bedrooms created, and again in the 1960s. In the 19th century the house served as a tenant dwelling on the surrounding farm. It was restored as a separate residence in 1981 and remains a single-family home. It is considered one of the oldest documented stone houses outside New Paltz village.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial, Dutch Colonial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored as an independent residence in 1981 after nearly a century as a tenant house; still used as a single dwelling, with further restoration work in 2005.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.822544-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000645.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000645/f8cbc863c6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000645/f8cbc863c6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Max Ferri (MAXahf)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_and_Maria_LeFevre_House-1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Ferri (MAXahf)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_and_Maria_LeFevre_House-1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322663","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_and_Maria_LeFevre_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4669250"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/lefevre-abraham-and-maria-house-06000645/"}